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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 418

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a dozen games straight, the finalscore being 19 to 7. This awakened theEnglish chess world to the nature of theiryoung antagonist. Mr. Lowenthal was in London, and heresolved to challenge Morphy in order to 1899-1 PAUL MORPHY, THE CHESS CHAMPION. 933 show that the old score, made when Morphywas… … DRAWN BY OTTO BACHER, FROM A STEEL ENGRAVING, BY PERMISSION OF GEORGE BELL 4 SONS, LONDON confident; but when the third game began Ifelt myself in a grasp against which it wasvain to struggle. The match ended by Morphys winning ninegames to three, three being drawn. Next came other games with…

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